Times have changed since the days when an imaginative kid was happy to play with an empty cardboard box. Today, about 2.6 billion toys are sold every year, creating a $20.3 billion industry. It seems that every decade manufacturers create a toy that launches a buying craze. So without further ado, here are some [...]
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The $250 Lego Mindstorms NXT is somewhere between a really cool toy and a robotics lab in a box. The combination of a computerized controller, sensors, servo motors, and hundreds of Lego Technic pieces lets kids of all ages design and build sophisticated robotics.
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The Wall Street Journal has revealed the plot for Toy Story 3: ?Woody the cowboy and his toy-box friends are dumped in a day-care center after their owner, Andy, leaves for college.?
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“Daddy, I got two toys in my happy meal!”
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To keep things interesting, we excluded BB guns, slingshots, throwing stars, and anything else actually intended to inflict harm. Below, our toy box from hell.
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The Ebb and Flow of Movies: Box Office Receipts 1986 - 2007
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Why is that little box there? Why is it an iFrame? What does it do? Does it belong this this universe? Are we nuts?
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Logan thought this bonus pack of Colgate contained two equally-sized tubes of toothpaste. After all, the boxes are exactly the same size. Yet when he opened the bonus box, he found a smaller box containing a mini tube of toothpaste.
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On Thursday, you would have seen Michael Phelps, still basking in the glow of his olympic triumphs, presented with a copy of Call of Duty: World At War. A game that’s months from completion. Turns out Phelps didn’t receive the game at all; what he got instead was a box of lies. An Activision PR [...]
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